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not suprised the main characters are all white.
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sharethe story sounds very bad to be honest and the trailer didn't impress me either probably won't even check out :D
shareThey might bring black bitches to the crib.
Dude, that was SO not extreme!
Wentworth Miller is not white
shareGood God, does not everything have to have a racial component now? I mean they made Johnny Storm black in the new Fantastic 4. They're talking about making James Bond black now. They're remaking Ghostbusters with nothing but women. If they talked about re-making Shaft and making the character white, would there be up-roar?
shareThe same people who whine about a lack of diversity are the first to lambaste whites for "cultural appropriation." Idris Elba ought to be James Bond, but Iggy Azeala is an impostor who should go "home" (i.e., Australia) to "play with the kangaroos" (Tim Wise's words). And I don't even like Iggy, but let her do her own thing. And I think Elba would make a good James Bond.
First things first, I'm not going to sit here and be this movie's biggest defender. It was alright. But that being said, this is probably representative of these types of people. Usually birds of a feather flock together. Most whites have whites as best friends. Most blacks have blacks as best friends. Next, if they threw one minority in the mix just to "diversify", that person gets labeled as the "token" friend, which is patronizing. If they made more than one of the group minorities, then it looks like they're trying way too hard. So there's literally no way to please everyone.
James Bond is written as a character from a book. And then turned into a movie. He was a brittish white guy. I have abosolutely no problem what so ever with Iris Elba playing a secret agent in a NEW role. I like him. I do have a problem with him playing James Bond. Just like I'd have a problem with Brad Pitt or what ever white actor playing Shaft like I alluded too. What's next, Selma Part 2, staring Matt Damon as Martin Luther King just so we can be politically correct? Malcom X staring George Clooney? Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Because it is. It's just that I've reversed the race roles. Now, could there have been a black, asian mexican or whatever friend in this movie of the 4 guys? Sure...but I guess there wasn't. Who cares. Don't go see it. There probably won't be allot who go see it anyway. I'm not getting angry with you, I just get tired of seeing all black films with no white people but then read message boards with people bitching that there's no black people in white films. There was bitching on the tv show Friends for years. Seinfeld, etc...who cares? I loved watching Martin and Fresh Prince. There were hardly no white people on both shows..and the ones that were on there were made fun of the entire time. Anyways that's my take on it.
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Wentworth Miller is not white
Uh, yes he is. What do you think "white" means? share
Try reading his bio...
"His father is of Afro-Jamaican and African-American (along with English and German) descent. His mother has Dutch, French, Swedish, Lebanese/Syrian, Austrian, and Polish ancestry."
He might look white but he seems to be pretty mixed race to me.
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I'm more concerned with the blatant misogyny and the terrible poster art. It shows a most likely dead woman and the tagline States it's a place to do wrong or something to that effect. It can definitely be seen as insensitive. The whole premise is a little alarming too. A place where married men can have affairs, etc. It's not only offensive to women but also to men. As if all married men have this fantasy of having a place where they can cheat on their wives and be bad. Just seems like lazy filmmaking to me.
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Which character would you have preferred be black? The cokehead prostitute beater? The sex addict serial cheater? The weird dude spying on all of them? I mean, really. You cast a black actor in those roles and then there's a thread asking why the characters of questionable morals or ethics is black. This just happens to be a middling story about a pack of douche bros. No more, no less.
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